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CHINA'S GRAND PLAN FOR CENTRAL ASIA TO HAVE IMPACT ON GARMENT AND TEXTILE INDUSTRY
The China-Central Asian Summit that took place in China’s Xi’an in May could help cement links between China’s major garment and textile industry and central Asian textile suppliers, forging backward linkages and new markets, a manufacturer and two industry observers have told Just Style.…
FATF WARNS THAT GOVERNMENTS ARE FAILING TO IMPOSE VASP AML RULES
The June plenary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which wound up today (Friday June 23), has warned that almost 75% of jurisdictions worldwide are failing to implement its AML standards on virtual assets and virtual asset service providers (VASPs).…
BATTERY REPAIR TECHNIQUES AND AFTERMARKET CARE AND RECYCLING SYSTEMS NEEDED TO AID BEV ROLLOUT, SAY EXPERTS
Auto repairers and insurers are examining repair techniques for EV batteries involved in road accidents, so that slightly damaged batteries are not written off and junked.
The concern is that with batteries being a dominant and expensive element of EVs, insurance premiums could rise if they cannot be repaired after accidents – making EV purchases even more costly.…
LAW PROFESSORS SAY TUNISIAN POLITICAL DETENTIONS IS HARMING TEACHING OF JURISPRUDENCE
Law professors, human rights lawyers and civil society groups have published a petition demanding the release of political prisoners in Tunisia, warning that such democratic regressions harm both the practice and teaching of law to the new generation of students.…
CHINA TOBACCO LEAF IMPORT SECTOR GROWS, AS MANUFACTURED PRODUCT INDUSTRY EXPANDS VALUE SALES
The secretiveness with which China guards its tobacco news and figures – even of tobacco leaf production – says much about the state’s priorities under President Xi Jinping. This strongman leader who has of late prioritised security/repression over economic growth, has blocked the site of the China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC), the national tobacco monopoly, to users outside China.…
PAINT COMPANIES ADAPT TO EVERY TIGHTENING ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION
As a chemical-based sector, the paint and coatings industry is particularly sensitive to changes to environmental regulation, and while governments have a duty to protect the planet and its human health, they need to avoid damaging manufacturers in the process.
Unfortunately for the British paint and coatings industry, the UK government has been failing to efficiently replace the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system with a UK REACH, following Britain’s December 2020 exit from the EU.…
EU MINISTERS AND MEPs AGREE EU POLICE FORCES CAN ACCESS FINANCIAL RECORDS FROM ALL MEMBER STATES
Law enforcement agencies across the European Union (EU) will in future access financial records containing AML/CFT information from all 27 EU member states. And this data will be generated and shared a technically harmonised manner in future, boosting its utility. Political agreement was today (June 6) reached on these rights by the European Parliament and European Union (EU) Council of Ministers.…
MONEY MULING EXPANDS – EASY MONEY, FOR LITTLE RISK, WITH NO OBVIOUS VICTIM
The use of money mules moving dirty money worldwide continues to grow, with law enforcement, financial institutions and researchers continuing to highlight the problem. In the UK, 31,979 money mule cases were recorded in 2017; rising to 40,129 in 2018; 42,900 in 2019; and 40,353 in 2020; according to 2022 research published in the International Journal of Business and Economy (1).…
HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MONEY LAUNDERING
Human trafficking and modern slavery have grown exponentially in recent years: in 2021, 50 million people worldwide were estimated to be living in modern slavery, 10 million more than in 2016, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). (1) These crimes – sometimes referred to with the acronym HT-MS – are extremely profitable, ahead of narcotics and arms trafficking, according to Tarana Baghirova, programme officer at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe.…
AI OFFERS SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS TO LANDOWNERS WHO DARE TO INVEST, SAY EXPERTS
With ChatGPT and related large language model (LLM) systems being adopted by a wide range of industries, landowners and farmers are increasingly assessing the benefits that artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to their businesses. The potential is clear – from sharper land valuations for sellers and data enabling enhanced biodiversity programmes for environmentalists to better animal welfare and crop production, especially from improved weather forecasting.…